Jessica Smith
Gamer / Geek / Software Engineer
Hi, I’m Jessica, a software engineer, tech person and gamer from the UK.
During the day I work for DigiCert as a Senior Principal Engineer and when I’m not doing that I’m working on cool projects like LanCache, UK LANs and sometimes helping resurrect an MMORPG.
I also sometimes do freelance event network and broadcast engineering and have worked at events like EGX, Bafta Games Awards and I’m a co-founder and former Technical Manager of Epic LAN – responsible for writing their tournament and game server management platforms.
When I’m not coding, reading about tech, running events or working events, I like to do outdoors things like rock climbing (although mainly indoors), sailing (definitely outdoors)m high rope courses and cycling. Inside I like to run games of D&D, play board games, mess about with 3D printing and obviously, play games.
Currently
- activities
- Rock climbing, sailing, high-ropes courses
- playing
- Factorio, Blur, Golf with Friends
- speaking
- Next talk: PHPDay.it, May 2026
- tinkering
- Homelab, Agentic AI
- working on
- Infrastructure, DNS, Monitoring, DevOps, Platform Engineering